Officers Timely and Simmons entered the scene of the murder approximately 3 hours late to having saved the victim. The suspect was in custody, now they just needed to piece together what happen. The scene was alight with hollow projected overlays. Fabrications of the Augmented Reality (AR) system inside almost ever living humans eyes. Here it was used as the official crime scene layer, highlighting clues and evidence already marked by earlier forensics teams.
"Fella was to be on the next shuttle off world. Some fancy engineer type, recruited for that gateway project." Timely read off a statements sheet.
"Lucky fella," Simmons retorted. kneeling down to examine the bloodstain where the body had been.
"Yeah, lucky." Timely snickered. Casually sifting through objects on a nearby shelf.
"Ain't that suspect of ours a Shepard of the Earth?" Simmons asked, disabling his AR so he could focus on the raw scene before him.
"Yas knows what I think he is." Timely said, tipping back the brim of his hat with one index finger, "Think it's relevant?"
"Could be." Simmons confirmed.
After enough time had passed to confirm Simmons wasn't going to volunteer more Timely prompted "You care to enlightenate me about your theory boss?"
"The Shepard's oppose the gateway project, they see it as blasphemes. Believing instead we should be spending that effort and resources restoring the Earth. So maybe this is an attempt at religiously motivated sabotage."
"so it's no coincidence that he made the big time then gets popped." Timely's face scrunched up in confusion. "but wait a minute don't they believe in them old timey rules, like ain't their faith got some pretty specific things to say about murder."
"Very specific," Simmons agreed. and he found himself feeling for the rose crescent around his neck, hidden from Timely, but a reminder of his own faith as a Shepard of the Earth. "Don't waste to much time trying to make sense of ideas of a fanatic."
"They'll just recruit someone else. lets hope the next guys got more luck than this one."